OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? PART THREE During that final period of peace, from the assembly of the Long Parliament to the outbreak of war, Oliver Cromwell was noted as one of the more industrious MPs. He was appointed to sit on numerous committees, including that to inquire into a petition presented by his own constituents in Ely and Huntingdon protesting against land enclosures carried out by Viscount Mandeville, later the Earl of Manchester. He was effective in debate, constantly harrying those loyal to the crown or those whom he considered to be closet Catholics. He spoke in favour of banning the playing of sport on Sundays; of forbidding bowing and making the sign of the cross at the name of Jesus; of denying Catholic peers the right to sit in the House of Lords and the compulsory preaching of sermons in all parish churches.
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART THREE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART THREE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART THREE
OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? PART THREE During that final period of peace, from the assembly of the Long Parliament to the outbreak of war, Oliver Cromwell was noted as one of the more industrious MPs. He was appointed to sit on numerous committees, including that to inquire into a petition presented by his own constituents in Ely and Huntingdon protesting against land enclosures carried out by Viscount Mandeville, later the Earl of Manchester. He was effective in debate, constantly harrying those loyal to the crown or those whom he considered to be closet Catholics. He spoke in favour of banning the playing of sport on Sundays; of forbidding bowing and making the sign of the cross at the name of Jesus; of denying Catholic peers the right to sit in the House of Lords and the compulsory preaching of sermons in all parish churches.